White Abarrio, a leading player in the handicap division whose multiple Grade 1 wins include the 2023 Breeders' Cup Classic, will stand at Gainesway Farm in Kentucky next year, owner C2 Racing announced on Thursday. Gainesway's kingpin is White Abarrio's paternal grandsire, Tapit, a perennial leading sire. White Abarrio is by multiple graded stakes winner Race Day, who stood at Spendthrift Farm before being exported to Korea for the 2021 season. Spendthift bred and sold White Abarrio, by far the most successful runner by his sire. The lack of commercial popularity of Race Day was considered a major factor in the long process to secure a stud deal for White Abarrio, despite his ontrack success. White Abarrio, now 7, sports a career mark of 26-11-3-3, with earnings of $8,445,170. He has been trained the majority of his career by Saffie Joseph Jr., although he was handled by Rick Dutrow for a handful of races, including some major wins in 2023-2024 while Joseph was embattled following several deaths in his stable. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. White Abarrio first burst onto the scene in early 2022 with wins in the Grade 3 Holy Bull and Grade 1 Florida Derby before finishing 16th in the Kentucky Derby. He placed in three other graded stakes at ages 2 and 3, including missing by just half a length in the Grade 1 Cigar mile to end 2022.  After finishing third in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap to eventual 2023 Horse of the Year Cody's Wish, White Abarrio went on a tear for the remainder of 2023. He first won the Grade 1 Whitney at Saratoga, defeating Cody's Wish, and then took the Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita. After a quiet early 2024, White Abarrio came roaring back. A Gulfstream allowance winner off a layoff and then second in the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector, he proved he was still elite with wins in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup and the Grade 3 Ghostzapper.  However, he did not hit the board the rest of the year, and the end of his season was full of misadventures. First came the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup, in which he was severely bothered by the chain reaction out of the gate that led to Mindframe losing jockey Irad Ortiz, who briefly wound up seated behind Edgard Zayas on White Abarrio while trying to avoid hitting the track. White Abarrio recovered to cross the line fifth and was elevated to fourth by a disqualification. White Abarrio subsequently entered the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile but was a vet scratch on his way to the gate – a decision his connections are contesting. White Abarrio made his first start in five months in this January's Pegasus World Cup, finishing a strong second. He subsequently won the Grade 1 Oaklawn Handicap by two lengths, defeating reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty and classic winner Journalism. He is expected to meet Sovereignty again in his next planned start, the Grade 1 Stephen Foster on June 27 at Churchill Downs. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.